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Steam drills, Rutland R.R. [Railroad] – Antique Wall Art

Steam drills, Rutland R.R. [Railroad], [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
Steam drills, Rutland R.R. [Railroad], [between 1900 and 1905]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Steam drills, Rutland R.R. [Railroad], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Steam drills, Rutland R.R. [Railroad]

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Steam drills working on the Rutland Railroad make this view a record of heavy construction work rather than the passenger trains and depots that fill many railroad photographs. Steam-powered rock drills were used to bore holes for blasting through rock cuts and quarries, and crews relied on them to clear the way for new track. The picture was made on an 8 by 10 inch glass plate by the Detroit Publishing Company, which issued many views of American railroads and scenery in the early 1900s. A crack across the lower left of the glass is still visible, a reminder of how fragile these negatives were.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesNegative cracked lower left-middle. 729-4" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042539. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69694

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